Persian Floral ATC

I love paper piecing. The flower is done with ads in magazines from, what else, persian rugs! First I colored the background card with a bit of watercolor. Stamped the leaves on. Then I cut petal shapes at random from the rugs. The stem and leaves are also done from green rugs. The dragonflies are done from another set of basic looking rugs.

Bella ATC

This was for a "Bella" ATC swap I did at Stamp-Shack. The image was provided to me by a friend. Thanks Christie. She was really a lot of fun to do. Kind of like dressing up Barbie. Except she's so small that paper piecing her outfit was a bit hard on the hands. I cut her pants out of a jeans pp. The purse and the top are out of a paisely pp. The belt is a sliver cut from silver paper and the shoes on her bag is cut from a tag on a gift bag. I colored the background with watercolors. Generated the sayings and the $ sign on the computer. I scanned the image into the computer and printed it out. Once the ATC was assembled, I went back over the image with a black ink pen (because the computer scanned image wasn't as sharp as when you stamp it directly to paper).

Dance like no one's watching

The image is from TAC. The saying is computer generated and the notes are hand painted. This is one of my most favorite ATCs (Artist Trading Cards). I stamped her in light brown. Didn't like the look for her so painted her with skin tone colors. Then I paper pieced her dress and hat. Punched a ton of little circles from white felt paper. Painted her shoes, the necklace and added bracelets. I mean who would get all dolled up and not have any jangling bracelets! I added notes and shadows to finish off the card. I loved her so much, I did her in a bunch of different colors.